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FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.

2ND LINCT. AN. DUFFY) We greatly, regret to annoure that news has just been received by Messrs. Laws, Bingham Matthesen: Arthur Noel Duffy (2nd Licit 8th North Staffords) has been repofed by the War Office as missing, believed killed, Novenia 17-90, says the 3.0 Dally News!

Mr. Duffy was educated at Chefo School, which he left to join the staff of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Mathews He left for home in January, 185, and was gazetted thnost at once His father, writing on November 24 say his son went through the great ofensive from July 1st right up to the apture of Beaumont Hamel, ete. He apelialized in bombing and became bombing officer instructor to his battalion. He was wounded in the knee in July, and made ight of it, continuing with his regiment, when I could easily have got a senth's Convalescent leave.

Lieut. Duffy was a member the Rowing Club, a fine swiroper and also kee member of "A" Company. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Duty, who were membra of the China Inland Mission. their last station being Wul, andl great kyn pathy will be felt with them in here [ bercafensent.

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catastrophe as ourselves, as our comrades in misery much more truly than you are. Do you think that we are like It is very nice to be at home again. some of you in accumulating on the head One sometimes of every wretched antagonist the indigna- Yet am I at home?

There are occasions when I on felt for this wickedness of govern NEW HOUSES now Building in Com doubts it. feel like a visitor among strangers whment, of a social system, or (if you will) 2dnit Road. Ready for occupation on a

For the rest we ure February, 1017. For rent and other particulare.. intentions are kindly, but whose modes of a nation 7.

depicted as merry assassins, rejoicing in apply to of thought I neither altogether under

I find the opportunity of a scrap in which we

H. M. H. NEMAZEE, stand nor altogether approve.

of myself storing impressions, attempting know that more than three-quarters

our friends will be maimed or killegl. hasty and unsatisfactory summaries to appease the insatiable curiosity metrics of our own lives, exulting in people with whom I really am at home, the duty of turning human the England that's not an island or an lumps of disfigured clay, light hearted as empire, but a wet populous dyke stretch children in a garden who shoot at spar- ing from Flanders to the Somme. And rows with a new air-gun and clap their theh, just when my pencil is on the hands when they fall, charmed from the N

transient melancholy of childhood by paper, "I realise how hopeless it is.

of foutball or packet

THE MIND OF THE AOLDIER AND OF THE CIVILIAN.

As we exchange views, cue of you assumes as possible or probable something that seems to us preposterous, or dismisses as too trivial for camment what appears to us a fact of primary importance.

You speak lightly, you of ussume that we shall speak lightly,

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things, emotions, states of mind, human relationships and affairs which are to ᏝᎨᎢ . terrible. You seem us solemn ashamed, as if they were a kind weakness, of the ideas which sent us to rance, and for which thousands of sons and lovers have died. You calculate the profits to be derived from War after the War, as though the unspeakable

iz: Mr. S. Henan, writing, from l'amagones of the Sommle were an item

frove bran a commerent proposition. You make us ped across very few Shanghai people feel that the country to which we're Dixon. Elliston. Poate and Wilkinson of returned is not the country for which we the P. O. Elliston. I hear, did some

went out to fight! And your reticence hue work at Thiepval and deserved

as to the obvious physical facts of war And your ignorance as to the sentiments some recognition.

of your relations about it

Mr. Ernest Morriss has been wonded whilst on active service on the Somme, He receiver a cupound, fracture of the right arm and is now in hospital, the first "holiday" he has had for two

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THE LOATHROME REALITY, Of the first material reality of war, from which everything else takes its: colour, the endless and loathsome physi chi exhaustion, you say little, for it would spoil the piquaney, tree, of the picture. Of your soldiers' internal life, the constant collision of contradictory

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moral standards, the liability of the soul to be crushed by mechanical monotony, the difficulty of keeping hold of sources of refreslunent, the sensation of taking a profitless part in a game played by monkeys and organised by hepaties, you Are you su realize, I think, nothing. superficial as to imagine that men do got feel emotions of, which they speak? Or do you suppose that, as a cultured civilian ouce explained is me, these feel- ings are confined to gentlemen," and are not shared by common soldiers? And behind the picture of war given in your papers there sometimes seems to turk something worse than. yet allied to, Yet I don't think I'm mad, for I find its untruthfulness, a horrible suggestion that other soldiers have somewhat the that war is somehow, after all, ennobl profess to speak for the Army! I leave of man, it is at least one in which he return to Parliament and tell it that the sible in penes; that when clothed in khaki that to the officers who periodically finds a fullness of self-expression impos men at the front demand this, or object and carrying rifles these inds are more than they were when work- to thet. I say "we," because I find it truly difficult to separate opinions that I've ing in offices or factories. Perhaps I do you an injustice. But that intimation formed myself from those formed for me conversation snatched daring. by the men with whom I lived, the chance does seem to me to peep through some of slack your respectable paragraphs. As I read time in the trenches, or the comments of them I ceflect upon the friends who after our mess when the newspapers arrived suffering various degrees of torture died with Lloyd George's latest hapsody in the illusion that war was not the last about cheerful Tommies with the glint word of Christian wisdom. And I havG or the Times a sensation as of pointed cars and hairy of battle in their eyes."

paws and ahideous ape-face grinning into nilitary expert's hundredth variation on

mine sin upon sin. inisery upon misery, the theme that the art of war consists in

to the end of the world.. killing more of the enemy than he kills of you, so that, whatever its losses- The total allownore for the military

agreeable doctrine-the numerically pre- mission to Europes under General Tong ponderant side can always win, as it Tsai-l in 880,000.

We used to blas were, by one wicket. pheme and laugh and sey, "Oh. it's only the papers. People at home can't really he like that." But after some months in England Ive coms to the conclusion that your papers don't caricature you mercilessly as we supposed. No, the fact is we'vo drifted apart. We hare slaved for Rachel, but it looks as if we'd got to

Mr. L. Gull, who has just started training at Bisley Camp. writes to a both and S. men, are down, here friend in Shanghai-Deane and Ralf where they have been for the last we mouths and have two more months to

do.

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The Living Buddha of Urga has despatched a spreju del gate to bear pre- sents to the President consisting of eleven fine Mongolian horses, two white pamets, one yellow camel, a golden statue of Buddle and many other rare and valalive with Leah. able articles.

A KWANOTUNG APPLICATION, The province of Kwangtung has appli ed to the Central Government for permis- sion to retain its porting of the surplus of the Salt Revenue for the payment extra inillary expenses It is not e pected that the Cantrel Governinem will comply with the request,

THE JAPAN MISSION.

Some days after the appointment of Mr. Hsiung Hsi-ling on the mission to Japan the Government received word Lhat the Japanese Government desired a postponement of the mission. This has

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is horrible, but it is not so horrible ne the grimacing phantom which you have imagined. Your soldiers are neither so foolish, nor se brave, nor so. wicked, as the mechanical dolls who grin and ki and grin in the column of your news- No doubt, here and there, are papera. hoye to whom the holiday from parents or schools, masters or employers is an ex- hilaration, and whose first impressions The contrast reveals itself not less in how soon worn out-are printed by *the small things that in great It appears credulous editors as representing

·Delightful child- as much in the manuer in which you spirit of the Army." visualize the events of war and interpret ren! To men whose souls are blear to yourselves the duties and moods ofed with mud, they are as refreshing as your soldiers is in year conception of spring sunshine after endless cold and she principles for which we are fighting rain. But in the letters of the rank and file who have spent a winter in the and of the kind of harmony, national and supernational, in which the world may trenches, you will not find war desuribed

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small rings and great" Speaking of sensitiveness of judgment are not qualities which can be improvised. The ability of mea to con- mand them when they need them most, is proportionate to the sincerity with which they have habituated themselves to regard matters more accessible, and familiar. Therefore I cannot dismiss us trivial the picture which you make to yourselves of war and the nood, in which you conten-

led Mr. Haiung to delay his trip. A je. purt now says that the Governinent has received a definite reply from the Japan ese Government communicating its readi-plate that work of art. They are an ness to receive Mr. Haiung Hoiding and that it expects his arrival in Japan at an early date.

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They carry their burden with little help from you. For an Army does not live by munitions alone, but also by fellowship in a moral idea or purpose. And that you cannot give us. You can- index of the temper in which you will not give it to us, because yon de not

possess it. You are, I see, more divided Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon. approach the problems of peace. war is always beneath your eyes. in soul than you were when I became a read and you talk about it.

soldier, denouncing the apostles of war, beliove A PRECEDENT FOR KWANQTUNG. between you and us there hangs a veil. yet nos altogether disinclined

It is mainly of your own unconscious that war is an exalting thing, half imply Ever since the days of Yuan Shih-kai creation. It is not a negative, but a ing that our cause is the cause of the rule that no province cân.doptract

positive thing. It is no intelectual, it humanity in general and democracy in | independent· Joans has been, strictly oly

If meral. It is not ignorance (or particular, yet not daring boldly to say ão lest later you should be compelled to servil

should not mention it). It is falsehood, as to avoid inconvenience to both the provinces and the Central Gov- I read your papers and listen to your fulfil your vows, more complacent and ernment. The rule is a wise one (says

conversation, and I ses clearly that you self-sufficient in proportion as you

more confident of victory and have less the Peking Gazette) since the Tu Chuns have chosen to make to yourselves an and Governors are prone to contract image of war, not as it is, but of a kind need of uther nations, trusting more in long-term loans, which they do not in which, being picturesque, Ratters your the great machine which you have created tend to repay themselves, on account of appetite for novelty, for excitement, for and less in the unseen forces which, if you will let them, will work on your side. the constant changes in provincial posts. easy admiration, without troubling you

And you are more prone than you were Recently, however, Governor Chu Ching with masterful emotions,

Hatred of the lan of Kwangtung end Tu Chun Chaug chosen, I say, to make an image, because to give way to batred.

enemy is not common, I think among Huai-chih, of Shantung, have both asked you do not like, or cannot hear, the Central Government for permission truth; because you are afraid of what soldiers who have fought with them. to contract independent small loans most may happen to your souls if you expose is incompatible with the proper discharge ly for military purposes. Their requests them to the inconsistencies and contradic-of our duty, For to kill in hatred is have been refused by the Minister of Fin Logs, the doubts and bewilderment, murder, and we are not murderers but auce in pursuance of the fixed policy, but which lie beneath the surface of things.executioners. I know, indeed, how much You are not deceived as to the facts; for harder it is for you not to hate than it facts of this order are not worth official is for us. You cannot appease tho an- lying. You are deceived as to the Fact. guish of your losses by feeling, as we As to that, you may apparently be feel, that any day your own turn may trusted to lie, motu proprio et mera

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Perhaps this judgment is harsh. Yet when I read the pictures of war given every day in your Press I do not think it is. There are in some of them traits which I recognise as not untrue to life. But the general impression given is

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But it is not among those who have | suffered most cruelly or where comprehen- aion of the tragedy is most profound that I find the hatred which appals. For in suffering, as in knowledge, there is some

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